At this time, Shen Rui had already seen the true form of the group of insects.
A group of gray-white ants, termites!
The legendary natural enemy of wood, termites!
Being able to recognize it at a glance was thanks to his memory from his previous life. The "Black Cat Sheriff" he watched when he was a child had a lot of chapters about termites.
They are extremely widely distributed, found in temperate and tropical zones, and are also numerous in Kyushu.
There are a lot of them. According to some information he read on the Internet in his previous life, it is said that the total number of termites is equivalent to 500,000 times that of humans. Everyone can get 500,000 termites!
Of course, this is also because they are too small, each weighing only one gram, but 500,000 of them are equivalent to half a ton in weight, far more than the weight of a person.
If they become an intelligent and energetic group, destroying humans will not be a problem.
"They are not ants. In fact, they are very different from ants. They are close relatives of cockroaches." Nepenthes giant introduced.
It continued: "I cooperate with them. I give the bones and fur left over from my meals to them to build their homes."
Shen Rui lowered his head and looked carefully, then tentatively released his thoughts.
"Are you willing to cooperate with us?"
"No problem, as long as the price is right, I'll eat all the roots and rocks for you." The leading termite said, raising a forelimb, which was as big as a thumb.
"It's not that you need to chew the rocks, you just need to chew off the roots of the trees in the ground..." Shen Rui said halfway, and suddenly changed his words, "Or you can help me find the cannibal named Qiaote, your local king."
"This is simple. Just give me a hundred square meters of high-quality wood. The wood here is all bone-poor and chewy," Ant Thumb said confidently. "My brothers and sisters are all over the forest. Without them The only things they can't discover are things they don't want to discover."
When Shen Rui heard this, he was overjoyed.
Yes, this is the advantage of poor information!
When Hal and others were blindly groping for elephants in the jungle, bumping into each other randomly, he relied on the advantage of being able to communicate directly with these alienated cordyceps to directly obtain first-hand information!
The importance of information cannot be overstated. Just like the many treacherous men in the past, they were just poor people like other ordinary people. They took advantage of the information gap between the two parties and dared to communicate with those idiots through gestures, and finally became treacherous. Make billions of wealth.
Of course, he knew that the other party should also have people who could communicate with alienated plants. However, in this large area nearby, only he had the capital to make those alienated plants switch sides and provide him with correct information like he did just now.
"Okay, after the job is done, I will give you 100 square meters of wood," Shen Rui promised, "Don't worry, I won't lie to you. Time is urgent now and I can't allocate it to you directly. I'll try it when I get it." If you want it, I'll have it flown over to you immediately, and it won't take more than three days."
"I believe you in this, because you are the owner of those animal-eating grasses." The termite thumb nodded its tentacles and agreed.
"Very good, I'll contact someone now to prepare it for you. What kind of wood do you need?" Shen Rui asked.
"I want red sandalwood, agarwood, huanghuali, and nanmu... get some of each." said the termite thumb excitedly.
Shen Rui rolled his eyes every time he heard a sentence.
"Are these woods really delicious to you?" he couldn't help asking.
"I don't know if they taste good or not, but they are famous. You humans protect each one of them as if they are your grandchildren, so I just want to eat them." Thumb Ant said confidently.
"Well, let me tell you, expensive things are not delicious. Just like shark's fin and bird's nest. In fact, the nutrition is about the same as tofu. They are all blown out by others. I'd better pick some perennial red pine wood for you. It's strong enough. It's absolutely delicious. It's chewy." Shen Rui said quickly.
"Well, well, this is our first cooperation after all, so I'll give you a cheaper price and you can get some red pine wood." Termite Thumb agreed.
Shen Rui was glad for a moment that he really had to comply with the other party's request. In this apocalyptic world, logistics was blocked and the market was all black. It was really not easy to get so much expensive wood at that time.
"Well, you go look for that person now. As for his information, just ask Nepenthes." Shen Rui then ordered.
Thumb Termite agreed: "I understand."
…………
At the same time, Hal and others have joined forces with personnel sent by the Inter-American Administration to form a search team of more than 300 people to search in the nearby jungle.
When there are more people, there will be more professionals. There are at least a dozen practitioners who can communicate with alienated plants. After all, skills are just skills. As long as you study and imitate carefully, you can always learn them... but the results are not optimistic.
"Damn it, those alienated plants pretended not to understand us one by one, and even deliberately misled us. I really want to burn them all in a fire!" Hal said angrily.
"This is normal," O'Daly said calmly, "nearby is the cannibal's base, and those alienated plants are his people. It's just that plants are different from people. People will die if their heads fall off. These plants, if their heads fall off, There are still roots, and as long as they have roots, they can live again. If you want to kill them completely, burning them is not enough. You have to dig ten meters into the ground. Naturally, they will have nothing to fear."
"Then why are they afraid of the cannibal?" someone couldn't help but ask.
"It's possible that he controlled these plants from underground, for example, he controlled their root systems," O'Daly deduced.
"Damn it, what can we do? We can't find a needle in a haystack! Those Americans don't seem to have been attacked." Hal asked.
"This should be the opponent's strategy. If they want to tire us, it may take several days, or even more than ten days, before they launch another attack." O'Daly was also at a loss.
"Damn it, there is a guy whose talent is perfect for this situation, but it's a pity that he refuses to merge with me." Hal's face suddenly turned cold.
"Yes, your devouring talent requires the voluntary consent of the person being devoured, but this cannibal's talent does not require that." O'Daly sighed.
"What should I do now? He neither runs away nor fights head-on. He is like a poisonous snake. It is really hateful. I would rather face the most ferocious and violent monster than do it again. I will never look for someone like this again. !" Hal said harshly.
The people around them were shocked. The anger of the eighth-level powerhouse, even ordinary anger, could make them feel the turmoil of the particles around them.
"Sorry, I have to rely on your strength this time, otherwise I wouldn't need you to follow me," O'Daly comforted, "But as long as you catch him, you can practice again. In three years, as long as three years, you will be able to practice again." With your qualifications and experience, you can completely reshape your body and achieve a second cultivation that no one can complete! At that time, you will be the reincarnation in the game, with the foundation of two tempers. Let alone Shen Rui. Even the legendary ninth level, you might have attacked."
"Yes, compared to such a big harvest, the trouble we are encountering now is nothing." Other companions came over to comfort him.
"Yes, I remember when I was a mercenary, I was ambushed in a desert and ate just sand for half a month."
When Hal heard these words, his face softened slightly and he was no longer angry.
For other people, it is common to spend several months finding someone; and now that the benefits are so huge, spending the past few days is nothing at all.
Of course it is boring, but they would rather continue searching like this than dangerous frontal combat.
But none of these people knew that while they were still looking for the needle in the haystack through various clues, the person they were talking about had already found the exact location of the cannibal.
This is the real difference between Hal and Shen Rui.
They will never understand that even if they rebuild ten times, they will never be able to catch up, because Shen Rui's attributes are not what humans should have.